On the use of unmanned aerial systems for environmental monitoring

S Manfreda, MF McCabe, PE Miller, R Lucas… - Remote sensing, 2018 - mdpi.com
Environmental monitoring plays a central role in diagnosing climate and management
impacts on natural and agricultural systems; enhancing the understanding of hydrological …

Survey of advances in guidance, navigation, and control of unmanned rotorcraft systems

F Kendoul - Journal of Field Robotics, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Recently, there has been growing interest in developing unmanned aircraft systems (UAS)
with advanced onboard autonomous capabilities. This paper describes the current state of …

Overview and current status of remote sensing applications based on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)

G Pajares - Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing, 2015 - ingentaconnect.com
Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) is presently in continuous development at a rapid pace.
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) or more extensively Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) …

Multi-temporal mapping of the vegetation fraction in early-season wheat fields using images from UAV

J Torres-Sánchez, JM Peña, AI de Castro… - … and Electronics in …, 2014 - Elsevier
Mapping vegetation in crop fields is an important step in remote sensing applications for
precision agriculture. Traditional aerial platforms such as planes and satellites are not …

An automated technique for generating georectified mosaics from ultra-high resolution unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) imagery, based on structure from motion (SfM) …

D Turner, A Lucieer, C Watson - Remote sensing, 2012 - mdpi.com
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are an exciting new remote sensing tool capable of
acquiring high resolution spatial data. Remote sensing with UAVs has the potential to …

Robots for environmental monitoring: Significant advancements and applications

M Dunbabin, L Marques - IEEE Robotics & Automation …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Robotic systems are increasingly being utilized as fundamental data-gathering tools by
scientists, allowing new perspectives and a greater understanding of the planet and its …

Direct georeferencing of ultrahigh-resolution UAV imagery

D Turner, A Lucieer, L Wallace - IEEE Transactions on …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Micro-unmanned aerial vehicles often collect a large amount of images when mapping an
area at an ultrahigh resolution. A direct georeferencing technique potentially eliminates the …

Extraction of vegetation information from visible unmanned aerial vehicle images.

W Xiaoqin, W Miaomiao… - Transactions of the …, 2015 - search.ebscohost.com
Abstract Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Remote Sensing has great advantages over
traditional methods, such as lower cost, simpler operation, faster access speed and higher …

Aerial orthoimage generation for UAV remote sensing

J Zhang, S Xu, Y Zhao, J Sun, S Xu, X Zhang - Information Fusion, 2023 - Elsevier
With its unique advantages of high flexibility and high efficiency, UAV has become a
reasonable substitute for conventional aerial measurement technology. Especially in the low …

Feature learning based approach for weed classification using high resolution aerial images from a digital camera mounted on a UAV

C Hung, Z Xu, S Sukkarieh - Remote Sensing, 2014 - mdpi.com
The development of low-cost unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and light weight imaging
sensors has resulted in significant interest in their use for remote sensing applications. While …